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Este é um artigo acerca do falhanço da Economia enquanto ciência. A certa altura diz isto que se lê, nas últimas décadas começou-se a mostrar que os seres humanos não agem sempre racionalmente. LOL  ... nas últimas décadas...? LOL e chama a esta 'descoberta' dos economistas uma revolução comportamental.

O que se conclui do artigo é que os economistas são uns ignorantes no pior sentido da palavra que é aquele que designa os ignorantes que não se vêem como tal e se pensam sábios.

The crisis of 2008 may have been the wake-up call, but it was only the latest warning sign. Modern-day economics had been built on certain assumptions: that countries, companies, and people seek to maximize their income above all else, that human beings are rational actors, and that the system works efficiently. But over the last few decades, compelling new work by scholars such as Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, and Robert Shiller has begun to show that human beings are not predictably rational; in fact, they’re predictably irrational. This “behavioral revolution” landed a debilitating blow to mainstream economics by arguing that what was perhaps the centerpiece assumption of modern economic theory was not only wrong but, even worse, unhelpful.